KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) is a top South Korean research university known for engineering, computer science, and AI research.
South Korea's startup ministry will issue a notice this month to select six more Startup Cities, joining the current four. A founder at the Daejeon roundtable said regional funds have little to invest, so the notice's terms will show whether designation brings capital.
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A KAIST-led team grew a single MoS2 crystal at its assigned site in over 99% of 400 patterned regions, per a Nature paper. The team has not built a stacked processor or measured any speed or energy gain.
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KAIST and UNIST researchers kept a lithium metal cell at about 80% capacity for 150 cycles, triple a conventional carbonate electrolyte. The recipe avoids fluorinated solvents and concentrated salts. Its savings depend on prices not yet published.
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KAIST researchers imaged hafnium zirconium oxide memory films switching by two processes at once, with new polarized domains forming while existing ones grew. A model tying that picture to device electrical data offers a basis for tuning write speed and uniformity, though the account reports no switching times.
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LS Electric takes 50% of Nan Ya L&S, a Taiwan power-infrastructure venture whose other half belongs to two Formosa Plastics Group affiliates. It moves LS from selling power equipment in Taiwan to bidding for engineering and construction contracts on the island's grid.
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Westinghouse is demanding more than the $175 million licensing fee on each APR1400 built in the US, The Seoul Economic Daily reports. A bigger payment leaves Korea less room on cost and less of the work it needs to make the US reactors commercially reasonable.
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KAIST researchers report in Scientific Reports that people primed to feel secure in a group wrote more detailed, persuasive dissenting arguments. The tests used hypothetical scenarios, so they say more about the quality of dissent than about whether real teams avoid groupthink.
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KAIST-led chemists filmed azobenzene's first picoseconds with ultrafast X-rays, finding a nitrogen-centred twist behind a switch debated for nearly 50 years. Designers of light-driven materials and molecular machines now have a measured mechanism to work from.
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KAIST and Seoul National University's AgSpec nearly doubles accepted draft length for coding agents by indexing files in the diff and JSON forms agents emit. It lives entirely in the retrieval index and leaves model weights untouched.
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NVIDIA and KAIST researchers lifted a 9B terminal agent from 50.00% to 68.03% Pass@1 by letting a stronger model pick among eight commands per turn. A 9B judge trained on that model's preferences reached 57.14%.
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KAIST and Microsoft researchers say a map of named entities cut a search agent's input tokens from 206,500 to 88,100 per query on EnterpriseRAG-Bench. Whether that saving holds outside the benchmark depends on what the map costs to build and keep current.
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An amine-modified 2D metal-organic framework stores zinc first and protons second, reporting 368.7 mAh/g and 500-plus fast cycles. It is a material strategy, not a battery.
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Kwang-Hyun Cho's group decomposes logic models of gene regulation to enumerate every minimal transient intervention that reaches a target cell state. The evaluation reported so far runs inside those models.
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Fifteen years after KAIST reported that graphene oxide sheets align themselves in water, a Nature Materials commentary from Sang Ouk Kim's team traces the line from that phenomenon to fibers spun for heat.
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Do Hyun Ryu's group at Sungkyunkwan University published two asymmetric catalysis papers in Angewandte Chemie, one running two carbon-carbon bond formations off a single catalyst and one building tetrahydrofuran rings from achiral inputs.
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The WashU group reports in Nature that the structures activate in mice before distant lymph nodes get the signal, and that a gel of three immune proteins placed under the scalp boosted the antitumor response.
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Sang Yup Lee's group at KAIST rebuilt the bacterium's metabolism to assemble two aromatic PHA polymers from sugar. The best titre reached 52.8 grams per litre. The stronger of the two polymers was the weaker producer.
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Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix help design Korean university degrees that fund students for years and then hire them at ordinary entry-level pay. Applicants are queuing 13.44 and 9.14 deep for each seat.
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Deleting the enzyme that installs m6A left developing mouse neurons with stunted axons. A KAIST group has now mapped which RNAs carry the mark and named the proteins that read it and haul it outward.
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The neural value alignment work with Microsoft Research Asia decodes brain waves to tell an agent whether its goal or its method was wrong. The speed claim comes from simulations.
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